Carouse

Definitions: Carouse

Carouse

Noun

1. Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party.

Verb

1. Engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing last night".

Date "carouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Carouse (2 syl.). Mr. Gifford says the Danes called their large drinking cup a rouse, and to rouse is to drink from a rouse; ca-rouse is gar-rouse, to drink all up, or to drink all- i.e. in company. "The king doth wake to-night, and takes his Rouse."Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 4. Carouse the hunter's hoop. Drinking cups were anciently marked with hoops, by which every drinker knew his stint. Shakespeare makes Jack Cade promise his friends that "seven halfpenny loaves shall be sold for a penny; and the three-hooped pot have ten hoops." Pegs or pins (q.v.) are other means of limiting the draught of individuals who drank out of the same tankard. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Multilingual Slang	Dutch (slempen). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Carouse

Synonyms: bender (n), booze-up (n), carousal (n), toot (n), riot (v), roister (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.
	Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool.
Drunkenness	Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.
Food	Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Carouse

English words defined with "carouse": Caroused ♦ Orgies. (references)

Specialty definitions using "carouse": Burl, Burler ♦ To CAROUSE. (references)

Etymologies containing "carouse": Carousal. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sing, dance, carouse every night.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Carouse" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Carouse" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Language		Translations for "carouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vesi i të pirit, dehem (become drunk, get drunk). (various references)

Arabic		‏صخب نتيجة لشرب الخمر, ‏صخب بسبب شرب الخمر, ‏إحتفال صاخب مخمور (carousal, jamboree), ‏إشترك في احتفال مخمور, ‏أسرف في تناول الخمر. (various references)

Bulgarian		гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), пирувам (feast, revel), пиршество (banquet, carousal, feast, regale, symposium). (various references)

Czech		popíjet (imbibe, sup, tipple). (various references)

Farsi		میگساری کردن (Tipple), درمشروب افراطکردن . (various references)

French		ribote, participer aux festivités, festivités, faire ribote. (various references)

German		zechen (booze, drink, drink to excess, quaff, tipple, to carouse). (various references)

Greek		γλέντι (carousal, conviviality, festivity, jamboree, jollification, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), ξεφαντώνω (live it up, revel), μεθοκοπώ (boose, booze, take to drink), ευωχούμαι (feast). (various references)

Hungarian		tivornyázik (have a debauch, have a rare old bean-feast, to banquet, to carouse, to roister, to rollick), mulat (have a ball, junket, revel, to be on the toot, to carouse, to disport, to dissipate, to go on the bust, to go on the toot, to junket, to make marry, to make merry, to racket about, to revel, to sport, to spree), dõzsöl. (various references)

Indonesian		berfoya-foya. (various references)

Italian		gozzovigliare (guzzle, revel, riot), fare baldoria (revel, whoop), bicchierata, baldoria (bacchanal, binge, good time, jamboree, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelling, revelry, spree). (various references)

Pig Latin		arousecay

Portuguese		festejar (carousal, celebrate, commemorate, entertain, feast, feteday, racket, solemnize, treat), farra (binge, bum, bust, carousal, dissipation), beber (absorb, bear, consume, down, drink, drink to, drink to excess, enduring, filler, fuddle, fudge, imbibe, inspired, lushed, soak up, take, tipple, tolerate). (various references)

Romanian		chefui (booze, feast, go on the spree, junket, revel, spree, tipple), petrece (accompany, celebrate, end, feast, frolic, go with, happen, junket, live, make good cheer, pass, revel, spend, spree, suffer, undergo), bea (bib, booze, consume, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, sip, swig, take, take up). (various references)

Russian		попойка (booze-up, buster, carousal, debauch, drunk, fuddle, guzzle, hellbender, razzle-dazzle, rouse, wassail, wet night), пировать (feast, junket, make good cheer, make merry, regale, revel, revelry, wassailed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		terevenčiti (fuddle), lumpovati (jollify, make merry), lumpovanje (riot), bekrijati (go on the spree), bančiti (go on the spree, riot). (various references)

Spanish		proceso de ir de parranda, jaranear (revel, roister, rollick), ir de parranda. (various references)

Swedish		rumla (drink, drink to excess, go on a spree, roister), festa (celebrate, feast, have a gay time, jollify, junket, party, revel). (various references)

Turkish		kafayı çekmek (booze, drink heavily, go on a bat, have a wet, swill), içki içmek (booze, drink, drinking, get liquored up, go on the booze, have a wet, hit the booze, liquor, wet one's whistle), içki alemi yapmak (go on a jag). (various references)

Ukranian		бенкетувати (banquet, feast, hobnob, junket, make whoopee, regale, revel), пиячити (be on the booze, boose, bouse, bum, fuddle, guzzle, knock back, make whoopee, tipple, tope), пиятика (binge, booze, carousal, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, libation, nosedive, racquet, whoopee), пити за здоров'я. (various references)

Welsh		cyfeddach (carousal), gloddesta (revel). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	convivantes. (various references)
German	100 BCE-Modern	gar aus. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	carousser. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carouse": caroused, carousel, carousels, carouser, carousers, carouses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acouse, acrose, calouse, caraque, carhouse, carous, carousa, Carrouge, Carzolus, cayoose, Corrouge, crause, Crousse, curous, Kavousi, Mcgroush, Vavrousek. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carouse" (pronounced kerou"z)
3	-er ou" z	arouse.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acerous.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: arouse, causer, cerous, cesura, coarse, course, crouse, saucer, soucar, source.
	-2 letters: acres, arcus, arose, aures, cares, carse, cause, ceros, cores, corse, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, escar, euros, ocrea, orcas, races, roues, rouse, sauce, scare, scaur, score, scour, serac, sucre, urase, ureas, ursae.
	-3 letters: aces, acre, aero, arco, arcs, ares, arse, care, cars, case.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: araceous, caroused, carousel, carouser, carouses, courages, nacreous, outraces, racemous.
	+2 letters: accouters, accoutres, aeroducts, aurochses, avouchers, barouches, cancerous, cankerous, caroluses, carousels, carousers, carrousel, castoreum, cavernous, coruscate, courantes, courtesan, croustade, crusadoes, cruzadoes, educators, housecarl, larcenous, nectarous, outcapers, outrances, oversauce, rosaceous, veracious.
	+3 letters: abductores, announcers, arenaceous, cadaverous, calcareous, carrefours, carrousels, cartouches, castoreums, choraguses, cofeatures, coriaceous, corrugates, coruscated, coruscates, coryphaeus, courageous, courantoes, courseware, courtesans, croustades, curvaceous, discourage, drupaceous, encourages, ericaceous, eucaryotes, excusatory, goatsucker, guacharoes, herbaceous, housecarls, nucleators, obduracies, operculars, outcharges, outercoats, outmarches, outreaches, oversauced, oversauces, peculators, pelycosaur, precarious, predaceous, predacious, quebrachos, racecourse, raconteurs, speculator, subcordate, supercargo, supermacho, undercoats.
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